The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.